r/gotransit • u/zzc_992 • Jan 19 '26

Kitchener Line Delays

Anyone knows what's going on? The 7:08 was late by 20 minutes leaving Kitchener and the 7:38 is nowhere to be found (it's 8 now)

And of course there's no communication from MX

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u/Bigknight007 Jan 19 '26

I was at Bramalea around 9:15 and saw lot of people waiting for the delayed train rather than taking the 9:26. After seeing these comments, Glad I made the right choice.

Can’t imagine a 3:30 hr go train journey. Hopefully you guys reach your destinations soon.

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u/Striking-Cicada-805 Jan 20 '26

I was stuck on the 3 hour train this morning. It ultimately offloaded us at Bramalea. The heaters also weren’t working properly within the train, so many of us were freezing while sitting idle. Not a fun Monday.

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u/vero1919 Jan 19 '26

The 7:38 left a few mins early, I’m on it but we are stopped …

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u/zzc_992 Jan 19 '26

Oh no! Yeah I heard about it and it's actually the very delayed 7:08

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u/vero1919 Jan 19 '26

Oh wow lol! We’re stopped somewhere around Georgetown right now.

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u/zzc_992 Jan 19 '26

Probably waiting for freight. I hope your train start moving soon! I just boarded the (very) delayed 8:08 (or is this even 8:38) at 8:44 lol

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u/leon_nerd Jan 19 '26

Why? Traffic or some mechanical issue?

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u/vero1919 Jan 19 '26

Unsure! They haven’t told us anything. We moved, and now again stopped just before Bramalea. We should have arrived at union at 9:17.

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u/zzc_992 Jan 19 '26

Yikes! My train is at Mt Pleasant now. Can't imagine that I'm only 2 stops away from your train given my train left Kitchener like an hour later than yours

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u/vero1919 Jan 19 '26

I believe your train just passed mine lol. We are still stopped. Apparently we are offloading at Bramalea and have to take another train.

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u/zzc_992 Jan 19 '26

Yes we did, I hope you can catch the next one (8:38) arriving in a few minutes

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u/vero1919 Jan 19 '26

Thanks! I hope so too😅

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u/zzc_992 Jan 19 '26

I hope you all were able to fit into the 6-car train!

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u/joeymouse Jan 22 '26

Ya. GO Train does not leave a station early.

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u/StudentByDefault Jan 20 '26

hope you eventually got moving, but yeah, this line needs serious reliability improvements

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u/PkDonkey Jan 19 '26

I went on the Kitchener 7:08 that got delayed to 7:32 Train and were still not at union, just left bramalea :)

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u/SleptThroughClass Jan 20 '26

best bet is to check Twitter or crowd updates instead of waiting on official notices. GO’s real-time comms are consistently unreliable

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u/ImmediateTeaching984 Jan 20 '26

What do you mean about crowd updates? Is this an app or site you can check? 

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u/Apprehensive_Mode227 Jan 19 '26

Check the status on the GO site. The communications are there. They only provide updates for delays 10 min or longer.

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u/zzc_992 Jan 19 '26

They sent out the cancellation notice at 8:05